Results 41-60 of 524 for drugs speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Community Safety and Fireworks: Motion [Private Members] (22 Sep 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...do not end up as we do year on year coming up to Hallowe'en with absolute chaos in some parts of this city. This year the chaos started a lot earlier and comes on top of the issue of scramblers, the open drug dealing, attacks on people along the canals in my area and elsewhere and damage to playgrounds. Every single day since the middle of August, I have had constituents writing to me...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Sep 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Defence Forces, many of which I have raised over the years, back to when the Minister last held his position, on the use and abuse of Defence Force personnel who were issued with the anti-malarial drug Lariam despite warnings from many other armies and defence forces. Thankfully, its use is at an end but the legacy continues. Dealing with that legacy will be under the Minister's watch. 5...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 20. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the attention of his Department or the Defence Forces medical authorities were advised when deciding to allow melfoquine as the anti-malaria drug of first choice for Defence Forces personnel on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa that it could cause severe mental disturbances and psychiatric or neurological side effects in view of the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the attention of his Department or the Defence Forces medical authorities were advised when deciding to allow melfoquine as the anti-malaria drug of first choice for Defence Forces personnel on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa in particular in view of an article (details supplied) highlighting the World Health Organisation warning in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 33. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the attention of the malaria chemoprophylaxis working group was drawn to the World Health Organisation report of 30 September 1989 that the drug lariam may cause severe mental disturbances and other psychiatric or neurological side effects; if the report and other subsequent reports or inquiries were taken into account in preparation of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 23. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason doxycycline is not the anti-malaria drug of first choice for Defence Forces personnel on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa. [3716/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 30. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason malarone is not the anti-malaria drug of first choice for Defence Forces personnel on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa. [3727/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the Defence Forces as of 12 January 2020 took the belated decision to in future offer an alternative to the anti-malaria drug lariam to members of the Defence Forces operating overseas; and if he plans to act on the unopposed decision of the Dáil Éireann motion of 28 June 2017 to draw up a plan of action to help alleviate...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of all serving and former members of the Defence Forces to assess the effects on their health by the compulsory ingestion of lariam in view of the decision to offer an alternative anti-malaria drug to Defence Forces personnel operating overseas (details supplied). [3729/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Mar 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 662. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funding for drug taskforces in Dublin was almost 9% lower in 2019 than in 2010; if a commitment will be made to increase annually over a 10-year period, the funding for local drug and alcohol taskforces until it is back to 2008 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3173/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (17 Dec 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...unopposed in Dáil Éireann on 28 June 2017 which instructed his Department, along with others, to draw up a plan of action to help alleviate and address ongoing concerns regarding the anti-malaria drug Lariam issued to military personnel serving on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa. [52726/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (17 Dec 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of the Dáil motion, passed unopposed on 28 June 2017, which instructed him to draw up a plan of action to help alleviate and address the problems of people who are affected by the anti-malaria drug Lariam, which is given to Defence Forces personnel acting overseas on behalf of this country, in particular in parts of Africa?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (17 Dec 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...overseas? A "yes" or "no" response will suffice. The Minister of State referenced medical experts in his reply. On 30 September 1989 the World Health Organization warned that the new anti-malaria drug Mefloquine, which is Lariam, may cause severe mental disturbance and other psychiatric or neurological side effects and that airline pilots and others whose jobs involve fine...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (17 Dec 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...probably prior to that. The Minister of State said that it is his job to heed medical advice. The European Medicines Agency report of 2014 states that there is enough evidence from the presented drug safety reports and the submitted literature report and the US Food and Drug Administration, FDA, assessment report supporting a casual relationship between Mefloquine, which is Lariam, and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the local drugs units attached to Garda stations (details supplied) in each of the past ten years. [46048/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of the Defence Forces are the only soldiers in the various missions in Mali that are required to take Lariam; and when he will abide by the instructions of Dáil Éireann to cease the use of the drug of first choice in preventing malaria in view of the fact that most other military authorities have switched to alternative anti-malaria drugs and that already some of those in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...I have is that a number of the 33 members of the Defence Forces in Mali have had to switch from Lariam to doxycycline because of a reaction to Lariam. It is good that they are on a different drug, but the fact that Lariam was there in the first instance shows that a poison is being given regularly to Defence Forces members on missions overseas, endangering them and possibly also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...done. The Dáil passed a motion asking the Minister of State to do that and asking him to ensure that a plan of action was drawn up to help those who have suffered the consequences of taking a drug, a poison, that the Minister of State has allowed the military authorities to continue to administer. The State has, on other occasions, banned poisonous substances that were administered...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...ships of the Naval Service, for example, in dry dock or at sea, if and each has a full complement of crew; and when he expects all ships will be at sea at the one time in view of the challenges of drug smuggling, sea fishery protection, possible UN or EU duty in the Mediterranean Sea or local search and rescue and ordinary sea patrols, in the case of ships not in service. [45676/19]

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Like some of the other Deputies, I want a bit of honesty in the debate. Like Deputy Crowe, for many years I have been involved with community organisations and the local drugs task force. At this stage we must admit the national drugs strategy is failing and not delivering what it should. It will continue to fail unless proper resources are put into it and there is proper engagement by...